A man with a whip holding a woman in a blue dress. Watercolour attributed to M. Bishop, 1958.

Adamson's published caption : Sadist in the white coat

[Netherne, Surrey], 17.7.58 [17 July 1958]

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 55.5 x 45.5 cm

Bishop M. 17.7.58 The name of the artist and the date are inscribed by Edward Adamson on the verso

Edward Adamson and John Timlin, Art as healing, London 1984, p. 20, fig. 19 ("The sadist in the white coat. Here the doctor is depicted as a heartless sadist who scourges his patient, a small pathetic figure.")

This work is untitled, the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Wellcome Collection 2948675i

Executed by M. Bishop at Netherne Hospital in Surrey, with support from Edward Adamson